An investigation of twenty/20 vision in reading.

An Investigation of the Intervention of Zimmerman & Hutchin’s (2003) Information Synthesization vs. Visualization on Iranian Undergraduate ESP Accounting Learners’ Reading Comprehension Achievement Across Gender

This study investigated the intervention of Zimmerman & Hutchins (2003) Information Synthesization vs. Visualization on Iranian Undergraduate ESP (Accounting) learners’ reading comprehension achievement across gender. 120 ESP University students majoring in Accounting in Iran participated in this study and were assigned to 4 homogeneous groups, 30 male and 30 female students in experimental gro...

An Investigation of Structural-Mechanical Properties of Spun-Bonded Non-Woven Using Computer Vision Method

[Development and validation of the MNREAD reading acuity chart in Portuguese].

PURPOSE To create and to validate a version of the Minnesota Low Vision Reading Test (MNREAD) acuity chart for the Portuguese language. METHODS The Minnesota Low Vision Reading Test acuity chart contain 19 sentences (logMAR 0.5 to 1.3) with 60 characters printed on three lines. All the sentences must have the same length with simple vocabulary. A total of 110 sentences were generated. The sen...

Investigation of the Functional Balance in Children with Sensory Impairment 6 to 14 Years

Aim: The human body is kept in balance by a complicated process including visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive information. Since the postural control systems require information from all three sensory systems in order to achieve or maintain optimal postural stability, the absence of information of one system may have an influence on body sway during balance .The purpose of this study was to ...

Investigation of the Relationship between Metacognitive Reading Strategies and Motivation: The Case of Iranian EFL Learners

This study was to investigate the use of metacognitive reading strategies, patterns of motivation aswell as the relationship between motivation and L2 readers’ metacognitive awareness andperceived use of strategies among Iranian EFL learners. A total number of 36 intermediate studentsfrom an English Institutes in Qazvin took part in this study. They were asked to fill in twoquestionnaires: (a) ...

Patients with AMD and a large absolute central scotoma can be trained successfully to use eccentric viewing, as demonstrated in a scanning laser ophthalmoscope

Twenty patients with age-related macular degeneration, an absolute central scotoma and a mean visual acuity of 0.04 (20/475) were studied. A scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) was used for microperimetry and determination of preferred retinal locus, often located to the left of the retinal lesion (corresponding to a location to the left of the visual field scotoma), which is considered unfavor...